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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper introduces the Broadband Provision Tensor (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">BPT</jats:styled-content>), a new fusion‐based multivariate approach for exploring the spatial, economic, and quality of service dimensions of broadband telecommunication services. Specifically, the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">BPT</jats:styled-content> allows for the development of a more complex and realistic typology of broadband provision between regions within a uniform geographic scale. Thus, regardless of the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">BPT</jats:styled-content> being implemented for states, metropolitan areas, counties, municipalities, census tracts, or block groups, the units included in the chosen scale of analysis can be compared and benchmarked against their peers. Ultimately, the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">BPT</jats:styled-content> allows analysts and policy makers to succinctly visualize the broadband provision status regions across multiple dimensions for comparative purposes. This paper highlights an application of the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">BPT</jats:styled-content> for 439 municipalities in the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">U</jats:styled-content>.<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">S</jats:styled-content>. using a combination of <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">O</jats:styled-content>okla <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">N</jats:styled-content>et <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">M</jats:styled-content>etrics data and provision information from the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">N</jats:styled-content>ational <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>roadband <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">M</jats:styled-content>ap. Results suggest a highly varied spectrum of wireline broadband provision profiles in the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">U</jats:styled-content>.<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">S</jats:styled-content>. Policy implications are discussed.</jats:p>